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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 1233

A Great War ´Mesopotamia´ 1916 D.S.O., and Gallipoli ´Suvla Bay´ 1915 M.C. Group of Six to Major A.N. Minns, Royal Army Medical Corps a) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, undated as issued, with integral top riband Bar b) Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued c) 1914-15 Star (Lieut. A.N. Minns. R.A.M.C.) d) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Major A.N. Minns.) e) General Service 1918-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Iraq (Capt. A.N. Minns. R.A.M.C.), nearly extremely fine (4) Estimate £ 2,000-2,500 D.S.O. London Gazette 22.12.1916 Alan Noel Minns, M.C., Temp. Captain R.A.M.C. (Mesopotamia) M.C. London Gazette 29.10.1915 Temporary Lieutenant Allan Noel Minns, 39th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps ´For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli Peninsula, on 30th August 1915, when attending to the wounded under heavy shrapnel fire. Another officer who was assisting him was killed. Lieutenant Minns later returned to the dressing station, took out 12 stretcher squads and brought in 24 wounded men.´ Major Alan Noel Minns, D.S.O., M.C., born 1891; commissioned Temporary Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps, 26.9.1914; served during the Great War in the Gallipoli Theatre of War, 18.6.1915-9.1.1916; with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, January-March 1916; in the Mesopotamian Theatre of War, March-July 1916; India 1916-17 and Mesopotamia again 1917-21 (D.S.O.; M.C.; M.I.D. London Gazette 29.10.1915, 19.10.1916, 27.8.1918 and 9.9.1921); Captain 26.3.1918; died at home 6.4.1921.

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